Yuán literatus of Kūnshān 崑山. Style-name Xīzhòng 熙仲; sobriquets Dōngguō shēng 東郭生 and Yěwēng 野翁. As a young man he studied under Wèi Péi 衛培 and was thoroughly grounded in Yì exegesis. He presented strategy memorials to Zhāng Shìchéng 張士誠 (the late-Yuán warlord of the Sūzhōu region), which were not adopted; he then withdrew to Lóushàng to farm, eventually taking up a xùndǎo (assistant-instructor) post but quarreling with the times. His tomb-inscription was written by Lú Xióng 盧熊 and is preserved in Zhū Guī’s 朱珪 Míngjī lù 名蹟録. Guō was bright and broadly learned but refused the examination curriculum, devoting himself instead to old-style prose and especially poetry. He moved in the orbit of Yáng Wéizhēn 楊維楨 and adopted Yáng’s Tiěyá yuèfǔ 鐵崖樂府 manner. His Línwài yěyán 林外野言 (KR4d0548) preserves the bulk of his surviving poetry.